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Only For The Weak (In Drop C) · In Flames

EXERCISE 16 OF 33
Run D2 · Chorus 2 (bars 42-54)
122 / 128 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART A
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDGABS10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
JOIN · 10
LINK · 9
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Only For The Weak (In Drop C) on drums

128 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 4:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
4:53
DIFFICULTY
46/100

snare through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-25, ride through bars 26-33, snare through bars 34-42, hi-hat through bars 43-54 and ride through bars 55-62, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 21 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Only For The Weak (In Drop C) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- A, D -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 22-45 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 42-81 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 78-87 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Bars 83-105 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Only For The Weak (In Drop C)?

105 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Only For The Weak (In Drop C) hard to play on drums?

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 4:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED